Eliezra Schaffzin is at work on a novel about college applicants, Beethoven’s choral music, religious conversion, and aerial drones. She is the recipient of the 2017 Calvino Prize, awarded to a work of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. Her published and performed short stories, essays, and texts written for music are linked at eliezraschaffzin.com.